The highs in Die My Love are undeniable, and the lows are confusing. Lynne Ramsay adapts Ariana Harwicz’s novel with a bold, fevered intensity, centering Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a new mother sliding from postpartum depression into psychosis. Robert Pattinson plays Jackson, the husband whose growing absence turns their home into a pressure cooker. The two leads meet the film at its temperature, and Lawrence gives one of her sharpest performances in years.
Ramsay shoots Die My Love with a surrealist bent inside a naturalistic world, a house swallowed by trees and quiet roads that stretch for miles. We stay locked to Grace, so the images bend to her stress and her shame. Light flares, shadows crowd corners, and small sounds throb like alarms. The contrast between the dream logic and the lived-in setting does what it intends. It puts you inside a mind that cannot find rest.
The narrative is less sturdy. The film builds a hot mess around a hot mess, then dares you to accept its wavelength. Scenes flare and recede with little connective tissue. The plot often feels unbuttoned, more collage than progression. LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek drift through in small turns as family or fantasy, adding texture without much resolution.
There are positive strands that are fleeting moments between the couple. We glimpse a wedding, a move into the new house, a laugh at the kitchen table, and even a barky dog that punctures the silence (to its eventual own demise). Those flashes justify why Grace and Jackson are together, then the movie submerges them again in isolation and fear. The balance is deliberate, yet it can flatten character into symptom.
It is not the most robust entry in Lynne Ramsay’s filmography, but it is her most frantic in years. The camera finds bodies in space, the cuts keep you inside Grace’s breath, and the sound design rakes at the nerves. The craft is precise even when the storytelling frays. For stretches the film becomes a rush of sensation that lands hard, then fades before it can deepen.
Jennifer Lawrence’s recent choices have been varied and smart, from Causeway to No Hard Feelings to mother! Her work here sits closest to mother! in spirit and in surreal shock. She commits to the uglier beats without flinching and lets awkward humor slip through when it can. Pattinson matches her with a performance that withholds and wounds. Together they keep Die My Love from drifting away.
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It did not fully cohere for me. The images linger, the performances compel, and Lynne Ramsay’s control of mood is unmistakable. The film asks you to meet it halfway, and sometimes it gives back more atmosphere than insight.
Score: 6/10
Die My Love (2025)
- Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, Gabrielle Rose
- Director: Lynne Ramsay
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Runtime: 119 minutes
- Rated: R
- Release Date: November 7, 2025
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